went skiing once, in the days of Airtours Allocation on Arrival cheapo deals, landed a nice enough hotel in Sauze but copped for a basement room with no windows. we were only about 18 or 19 so were kitted out in mainly borrowed gear. my mate had borrowed a fancy new ski jacket of his dad, we’d gone & hit the apres one night straight after the lifts closed stayed out till 2 or 3am then the next morning there was no sign of this coat. he went round all the bars & hotels looking for this coat asking everyone he met if they had seen it. never found it. just ski’d about in loads of jumpers for the next few days, then one night i woke up to him talking to someone, only his voice, bare in mind in was pitch dark, ‘i muttered who the f*&k you talking to?’ he said, “whaa, someone sat on the edge of my bed i thought it was you..!?” we fumbled around for the light switch, turned it on, looked down at the end of his bed, and there lay the missing coat!!??
true story.
whenever i have relayed it, peoples immediate guess is that it was all an elaborate prank by him, but he was properly shaken up, and was skiing piss thru & freezing cold for a day or so… another theory is that someone from the hotel found it and brought into our room, but the dorr was locked, bolted and the key left in, and no windows remember, and why would they do it in the middle of the night…?
